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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator tell the person that lives near her house?
(a) Not to urinate in the yard.
(b) To leave the following morning.
(c) To come inside to sleep.
(d) Not to light any fires.

2. Where is Bheki's friend kept?
(a) In a room full of older men.
(b) In the psychiatric wing of the hospital.
(c) In the waiting room of the hospital.
(d) In a cell at the local prison.

3. Who calls the narrator as she plays music?
(a) An old friend.
(b) A bystander.
(c) A neighbor.
(d) A police officer.

4. Why did the housekeeper bring her son to the narrator's house?
(a) The bus broke down.
(b) The school is closed.
(c) It is vacation time.
(d) It is after 5 p.m.

5. Where is the narrator's husband in Part One?
(a) In jail.
(b) On a boat.
(c) Dead.
(d) With another woman.

6. What does the narrator say to the person she finds?
(a) That she will house him for work.
(b) That she will find him work.
(c) That she will call the police.
(d) That he cannot stay.

7. What does the narrator offer to do for Florence?
(a) Buy her a car.
(b) Bring her back home.
(c) Pay for legal expenses.
(d) Drive her to the hospital.

8. What does Mr. Vercueil seem to be sleeping off?
(a) The flu.
(b) The effects of liquor or drugs.
(c) A bad meal.
(d) The effects of his medication.

9. What are the police doing as the narrator looks outside her window?
(a) Arresting a black woman.
(b) Parking their car.
(c) Following Bheki on his bike.
(d) Drawing their guns.

10. How much money does the man take from the narrator?
(a) Everything she has in her purse.
(b) 50 Rands.
(c) 150 Rands.
(d) 20 rands.

11. What happens to the narrator's car in Page 16?
(a) It refuses to start.
(b) The engine backfires.
(c) The engine starts on fire.
(d) It gets a flat tire.

12. Why isn't Bheki in school?
(a) Because he is a genius that don't need to study.
(b) Because he thinks the school was created to make him fit in the apartheid system.
(c) Because he thinks he can have a college scholarship because of basketball.
(d) Because he wants to join the army.

13. What do new contacts allow the narrator to experience?
(a) The reality of life in an Empire.
(b) The reality of the Berlin wall.
(c) The reality of the Vichy regime.
(d) The reality of South African inequalities.

14. Why does the narrator think the person that lives near her house will return?
(a) He dug himself a hole.
(b) He left his belongings.
(c) He left his dog.
(d) He forgot his car.

15. Where is the man that the narrator brings on her trip to town from?
(a) South Central.
(b) Kroncity.
(c) Johannesburg.
(d) The Cape.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long was the housekeeper absent?

2. What is the name of the narrator's housekeeper?

3. Who is the narrator of the book?

4. What does Mr. Vercueil do with the little girls?

5. What disease is the narrator diagnosed with?

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